Temporal Patterns of Diet and the Changes in Body Composition and Blood Pressure

National Yang Ming University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mealtimes; Blood Pressure; Body Composition

Treatments: Behavioral: Breakfast promotion; Behavioral: Nighttime snack reduction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03828812

YM104136E

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study includes two parts: 1) an observational study examines the association of meal frequency, meal timing, and meal regularity with short-term changes in blood pressure and body composition; 2) a randomized controlled intervention examines the influence of recommendation of increase breakfast frequency and decrease nighttime snacking on 1-year changes in blood pressure and body composition.

Enrollment: 125 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult
• Willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Being pregnant
• hemodialysis patients
• clinical diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases
• clinical diagnosis of cancer
• clinical diagnosis of dementia
• clinical diagnosis of eating disorders
• having metal orthopedic implants
• having pacemaker implanted

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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125 participants in 3 patient groups

Breakfast promotion

Active Comparator group

Description:

Receiving the recommendation of daily breakfast

Treatment:

Behavioral: Breakfast promotion

Nighttime snack reduction

Active Comparator group

Description:

Receiving the recommendation of reducing nighttime snack frequency

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nighttime snack reduction

Breakfast promotion + nighttime snack reduction

Experimental group

Description:

Receiving the recommendation of daily breakfast + reducing nighttime snack frequency

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nighttime snack reduction

Behavioral: Breakfast promotion